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| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6231 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 9 of 12 24 December 2010 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
Although from my experience... even if you can only understand rudimentary French, ( like myself), you shouldn't have too much difficulty following along in the Assimil books. Remember, in the Assimil courses ALL of the recordings are in the target language! In the worst case scenario you can type the French word into an online translator if you can't figure out what it means in the book. Most of what you will be learning is on the recordings. ( heck, you may even accidentally improve your French along the way!!) :-) Edited by liddytime on 24 December 2010 at 6:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4751 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 10 of 12 01 December 2011 at 3:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Does this course teach you the formal written Tamil or spoken Tamil?
Tamil is a diglossic language, so it's like learning 2 languages (13th century written English + 21th century colloquial English). Edited by Camundonguinho on 01 December 2011 at 3:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5601 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 11 of 12 01 December 2011 at 1:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
It is the spoken form. On its webside Assimil writes: "Le tamoul oral que vous apprendrez dans cette méthode est une forme de langue familière à presque tous les Tamouls, grâce à laquelle vous recevrez un accueil privilégié." 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Camundonguinho Triglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4751 days ago 273 posts - 500 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish Studies: Swedish | Message 12 of 12 02 December 2011 at 2:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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But the spoken form is almost never written. So, I don't know how they managed to sync them.
Spoken Tamil is almost always written in Latin script, and never in Tamil script. monkey: குரங்கு (kurangu) writen/formal Tamil korangu (spoken Tamil), it's rarely written: கொரங்கு I asked a Tamilian, can you write it குரங்கு and pronounce it in a spoken way (korangu) and he said ''no, because in Tamil sounds should correspond to the spelling.'' But the spoken form korangu is never written in Tamil script: கொரங்கு, because people think it's an insult to the '''sacred Tamil language''. So, colloquial Tamil is normally written in Roman script. Edited by Camundonguinho on 02 December 2011 at 2:30am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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